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Reincarnation According to the Idea of Karma

another verse, Allah says this about our death and rising from the
dead:
How can you reject Allah, when you were dead and then He gave
you life, then He will make you die and then give you life again,
then you will be returned to Him? (Surat al-Baqara: 28)

As we see from this verse, at the very beginning we are dead: we
have no existence whatsoever. Then Allah gives us life and human
form from this state. Some time after this when our lives are over, our
bodies decay and disintegrate into earth once again. This is our second
transition to the state of being dead. All that remains is for us to rise

again. This happens in the next world. We will all rise again in the af-
terlife; then we will understand that we can never return again to the

Every human being will inevitably die. Yet that death will only happen once, and nobody will return
to Earth after death. This is a certain truth revealed by Allah in the Qur'an. Another important truth
is this; Death is not the end. Death is rather the end of people's short and transitory lives in this
world and the beginning of their infinite lives in the hereafter. Every individual will spend his eter-
nal life in the hereafter in either Heaven or Hell depending on his behaviour in the life of this world.

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